"Twice I started toward the telephone—and twice I backed away from it. I decided to to wait a while. Jack would surely be calling me. What should I say? Oh dear God! I didn't want to give him up! But what about my promises to Teddy? If I broke them what would happen? Maybe Jack and I could hide out in the Nevada mountains. Hide out with JACK DEMPSEY? In the middle of Death Valley, the lizards would recognize me.
I gripped the telephone but made no effort to lift it. Oh, that MONSTER machine. Until late last night it had been ringing its head off! But we had been busy, Teddy and I. The blood of shame rushed through me. Each time I had made a feeble attempt to answer it, Teddy pressed me deeper down into the mattress."
"'You still hot for Hayes?'" Jack had asked.
"Oh dear God! Forgive me! I almost wished He had created me frigid."
Press photo of Lina Basquette, Photographer Unknown, October 22, 1932. "Lina Basquette in person" an editor has inscribed on back of the photo. "Four column cut for American Drama" section.
Basquette was then attempting to recessitate her flagging career, returning to her original career as a dancer night after night in movie theaters in various American cities. Her partner in this road show was fellow Hollywood resident Jack Dempsey, by then former world heavy weight champion, nominally still married to movie actress Estelle Taylor, and occasional stage and movie actor.
The singer is Lee Morse delivering the last bars of her 1929 hit, "Look What You've Done to Me."
